Tandrange language
| Tandrange | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nepal |
| Region | Lamjung District |
| Ethnicity | Gurung |
Native speakers | < 1,000 (2016)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Tandrange(Nepali:तान्द्राङे[tandraŋe]) is aSino-Tibetan languagespoken in a few ethnicGurungvillages ofLamjung District,Nepal.[1]Tandrange is spoken in the villages ofTāndrāṅ(तान्द्राङ), Pokharī Thok (पोखरी थोक), and Jītā (जीता). It belongs to theGreater Magaricbranch of theSino-Tibetan language family.
According to Schorer (2016), the Tandrange language is closely related to the recently extinctDura language,which was also spoken in Lamjung District. However, Tandrange speakers adamantly consider themselves as not related to the stigmatizedDura people.[1]
Numerals
[edit]The Tandrange numerals are:[2]
- kiute'one'
- nerki'two'
- serkiu'three'
- tari'four'
- tarkiu'five'
- naski'six'
- kar'ten'
References
[edit]- ^abcSchorer, Nicolas. 2016.The Dura Language: Grammar and Phylogeny.Leiden: Brill.
- ^Nagila, Kedar Bilash. 2010.Dura genderlects.Presented at Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) conference, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2010.
External links
[edit]- The last of Nepal's Dura speakersBBC news story
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